Description:
If you have a story to tell, and you know it could be told best through film, the challenge and reward of documentary filmmaking awaits you.  Putting together a good documentary (and getting it seen) is like completing a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle the size of a basketball court…and all the pieces are blue. This three-hour seminar will cover the basics of this demanding and underpaid art form, from the personal to the practical.

We will cover the following topics:
- what defines a "documentary"
- finding a story, research, and finding your own voice
- who does what and who pays for it
- preparing to shoot interviews and B-roll
- working with others, organizing the mess logs, outlines &   scripts
- licensing music and footage
- new technologies to pay attention to
- funders, markets, and film festivals.

Presented as a Lecture-Style Workshop:
These are our most affordable training programs, designed to introduce a subject quickly and efficiently. Students can take notes from the instructor's projected computer screen, and/or bring their own computer to follow along. Lecture-style workshops are normally held on weekday evenings from 6 pm – 9 pm and contain a maximum of 30 students (average is 8-20).

Who Should Take This:
Some experience in the field is helpful but not a requirement.

Instructor:
Abigail Wright has been a professional filmmaker, writer, producer, theatre director, and actor for twenty-five years. For the independent film company Miranda Productions, Inc., Abigail wrote and produced four environmental documentaries - The Shaman’s Apprentice, My Father's Garden, Canary of the Ocean, and Wilderness: The Last Stand - which have accumulated over eighty major awards and have been broad all over the world. She is currently the senior producer of an innovative immersive website soon to be launched, working on a hybrid documentary based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and developing a TV series on ethnobotany and the wonders of food. Before moving to Boulder in 1994, Abigail acted and directed on stages in New York, Toronto, and Montreal.

BDA Member Cost: $59.00 ($69.00 after Friday, September 24, 2010)
Non Member Cost: $79.00 ($89.00 after Friday, September 24, 2010)
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